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Trump and Immigrants: Laila Lalami; Michael Walzer on Organizing; Michael Ames on Bowe Bergdahl

Trump and Immigrants: Laila Lalami; Michael Walzer on Organizing; Michael Ames on Bowe Bergdahl

FromLiving in the USA


Trump and Immigrants: Laila Lalami; Michael Walzer on Organizing; Michael Ames on Bowe Bergdahl

FromLiving in the USA

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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Aug 1, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Trump’s target in the 2020 election will be immigrants, ‘The Other Americans’—that’s the title of the new novel by Laila Lalami. Her last novel, “The Moor’s Account,” won the American book award and was a Pulitzer finalist. She’s written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, Harper’s, and The Guardian, and she’s a columnist for The Nation.
Plus: we talk about organizing to defeat Trump--about movement strategies and tactics, & political issues and campaigns. Our guest is Michael Walzer -- His new book is “Political Action: A practical guide to Movement politics.”
Also: during the presidential campaign, Donald Trump often talked about an American soldier in Afghanistan who became the longest-held American POW since Vietnam. Trump said was quote “a dirty rotten traitor” who should be shot or thrown from a plane. He was talking about Bowe Bergdahl, that story is told in a new book, “American Cypher”--we’ll speak with the co-author, Michael Ames.
Released:
Aug 1, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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Talking about politics, thinking about the Left. Hosted by Jon Wiener, co-author of "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties," contributing editor at The Nation, and broadcast live at KPFK 90.7FM in LA Thursdays at 4.